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by giardini 3mo ago
Paywall.
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by giardini 3mo ago
So theoretically, Russia could begin converting their nuclear warheads to heat-generation units that could be used for all sorts of purposes. What kind of safeguards would be required? The Russkies have lots of nukes but no cash. They'
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by giardini 3mo ago
Remember that you don't need AC to beat the heat - we've had other options for centuries. One of my favorites is fans. I've lived in a hot subtropical climate most of my life. The best modes of cooling are, in order of comfor
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by giardini 3mo ago
esseph sez "Bullshit. Without historical data, you can't recreate experiments!" Why bother posting such nonsense?
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by giardini 3mo ago
Why bother posting crap like this?
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by giardini 3mo ago
I understand perfectly how it works! I'm just happy not to worry about hurricanes this year! I'm an optimist. More bad news for you, I fear.
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by giardini 3mo ago
OK, so you seem the proper nerd to ask something I've been wondering for a long, long time: the world has tons of nuclear weapons. Each consists of at least one fission component and an optional thermonuclear component. Let's conc
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by giardini 3mo ago
Thanks for the history corrections and clarifications. Now I'll never forget that Mme. curie isolated polonium (another nearly-useless factoid). History is important but not as important as science. Still you're looking more and
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by giardini 3mo ago
laughing_man says "Yes, making a bomb is easy once you have the materials. Getting the materials is very difficult." Well, apparently they've had (lots of) the raw material for years. And they have training: all those Irani
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by giardini 3mo ago
Which reminds me: a friend made a wild mulberry pie yesterday with some dried mulberries shipped in from Chernobyl a year ago. He set it to cool overnight but when he checked in early morning and cut a slice, he found some of the berries gl
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by giardini 3mo ago
I don't know what you classify as existential. But unfortunately it is drop-dead easy to make a fission bomb and even easier to make (multiple) dirty bombs. Iran has the pieces to do these things many times over. Hell, by now they coul
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by giardini 3mo ago
What happens if they have an attack of flatulence? But seriously, this must happen sometimes!
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by giardini 3mo ago
Horse pucky! TFA states the governor said she had learned about the improper registrations “last week", hardly time for her to do any investigation or make "details very public" as you say she did. And certainly the article s
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by giardini 3mo ago
Thank you all for the explications! My first encounter with "grot" was a BBC comedy, apparently " The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin", wherein a gentleman suffering a mid-life crisis tries to fail at business. Howeve
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by giardini 3mo ago
AM is just OK but they spam the hell out of you. Also, too many religious stations on AM. Meanwhile the government still throws money at NPR on FM, but sadly they've quit playing classical music all day like they once did and are inste
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by giardini 3mo ago
"excatly"????wtf?
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by giardini 3mo ago
How does "tat" differ from "grot"?
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LLMs Don't Learn Like Humans – They're Populations [video](youtube.com)
2 points by giardini 3mo ago|0 comments
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6,600 Non-Citizens Mistakenly Added to NJ Voter Rolls(cnn.com)
13 points by giardini 3mo ago|4 comments
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by giardini 3mo ago
Relax and read the WHO fact sheet: https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/chikungunya which states (among other things): "Severe symptoms and deaths from chikungunya are rare and usually occur
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Gary Marcus: US won't "win" AI war with China. What we should do instead.(garymarcus.substack.com)
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by giardini 3mo ago
It should be no surprise that the US cannot immediately overwhelm Iran, which has prepared for war with the USA since the overthrow of the Shah in 1979. Iran's new leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in November 1979, one day after 66 A
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by giardini 3mo ago
Russia does conscript men: https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-ukraine-conscripts-war-combat...
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by giardini 3mo ago
"The pot calling the kettle black."
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by giardini 3mo ago
I saw someone whose doctors were misled by this "transcriptionist vs scribe" difference in an ER situation. The LLM was listening and recording as the doctor asked questions and the patient answered. PT had suffered a falling epis
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by giardini 3mo ago
ProPress are a (high-quality) solution but IIRC for copper piping. PEX water piping expands and fails less(than galvanized) in freezing temperatures. This is the current accepted replacement for galvanized water piping. PVC piping is also
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by giardini 3mo ago
That's very nice but I doubt it will replace pipe clamps in ease of installation and cost in a real-world repair environment. Many leaks in say steel galvanized water pipes are the result of corrosion. Pinhole leaks form, then more and
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by giardini 3mo ago
Softalker is right-on in his warning: We usually have a few freezes in the winter and some homes' pipes freeze. I was surprised, in speaking to a plumber, to find that pipe clamp installation had come to dominate the repair market (as
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by giardini 3mo ago
blooalien says "People like you who actively go out of your way to make the world a far worse place than the shit-hole you've already turned it into are the "source of my pessimism"." You're like Otto in his
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by giardini 3mo ago
blooalien says "My own personal "pet peeve" cliche phrase is anything that is "literally" (except it's really figurative) something. So many people for so very long have used "literally" to mean the

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